increasing farm sales and profits. In our empirical analysis, we use historical county-level data from 1970 until 1994 for the … banking deregulations by comparing changes (in farm sales and expenditures) in states that lift restrictions on interstate …, soil fertility, and access to transportation. Our estimates indicate that county-level farm sales increase by about 3 …

This paper addresses the challenges facing China in accelerating the pace of rural-urban migration as part of its on … lessons for China are offered from the different urbanisation experiences of Latin America (especially Colombia) and Singapore. …

employs a unique natural experiment where some provincial governments in China liberalized migration policies for highly … provincial level employment data from the China Labor Statistical Yearbook. This paper found strong evidence that the HEHS labor … pool affected the location decision of food processing firms in China. The result supports recent literature that the food …

believed to have significant effect on the rise of obesity in China. This paper analyses Body Mass Index (BMI) and overweight … issue of adults 18 years and above in urban China with respect to food eating locations and other socio-economic and …

imbalance influences the venturing at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex …

of climate change on corn and soybean yields in China. Our results suggest the existence of nonlinear and asymmetric … study period has led to an economic loss of $220 million in 2009 alone in China’s corn and soybean sectors. Corn yields in … China are predicted to decrease by 2-5% under the slowest warming scenario and by 5-15% under the fastest warming scenario …

-related carbon dioxide emission intensity among a panel of 30 provinces in China covering the period 1991-2010. We use novel spatial …